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His design is close to the mini comic iteration, which is fine by me. The mouth is different, but the figure does bear a striking similarity. He was also much less bulky in the comic, which I actually preferred to the fat slug we got in the vintage toy.

Overall, I really like this figure. He is going to be one of my favourites, I think.

Question about Leech's hands and feet

Please move this to another thread if i'm asking outside of where i should be asking... but... i gotta ask:

Just opened my Classics Leech today and i noticed that both his hands are one same mold, and both his feet are one same mold.

As in... if this were to happen in a human character, it would have two left hands and two left feet (or 2 right feet + 2 right hands).

With Leech, his hands and feet being symmetrical in design, and his body using a unique, one-time-use only new torso, maybe Mattel chose to save costs by using one mold for both hands and one mold for both feet.

OR...

i fear that i might have gotten a defective Leech.

Notice the small bumps and wrinkles on his hands and feet. Do they match on both limbs in the figure you have?

Told you all that Leech was a botch job to save on costs. Now do you belive me?

Thanks for your replies guys.
I'm okay with these same-mold hands and feet since they are pretty much symmetrical, only real difference it makes is in the angle of the wrist-disk where the hand meets the wrist.

The angle of this articulation is not vertical to the "axis" of the forearm, but is slightly angled. Therefore, when places in an "idle position" Leech's right hand is slightly angled forward and his left hand is slightly backward.

I think if they obviously took care in making the hands symmetrical so that they could use only one mold, they should have made sure that the articulation angles were the same.

But this is not a deal breaker IMO.
The deal breaker for me is that horrible face: eyes and teeth should have been smaller, mouth way less open, and his stupid Goofy upper lips... i mean literally they look like the lips on Disney's Goofy.

Also i wouldn't have minded his body being a bit thicker from the side. Give him more volume and mass... he has a hollow torso after all.

Leech is no more a cost-cutting botch job than any other figure in this line. It's just that some end up looking better than others.

All in all Leech is waaay much better in person than what i expected. Which is better than the disappointment that for me was, say, Bikini Teela.

Not to sound like a creepy cheerleader for Uki, but it's nice to know there is at least one person on this forum who is extremely positive & friendly all the time. I don't think I could be that nice even if you paid me. If we ever give out awards for "forum member of the month", Uki gets my vote. -Mr. Shokoti